Sterling Nesbitt

Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of archosaurs. He is currently an associate professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Geosciences.^[1]

Biography

Sterling Nesbitt received his B.A. in integrative biology with a minor in geology from the University of California Berkeley in 2004. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2009, completing the majority of his research at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.^[2] He subsequently held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, and the Field Museum. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is also a research associate/affiliate of the American Museum of Natural History, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, the Virginia Museum of Natural History, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the National Museum of Natural History.

Nesbitt appears in the 2007 IMAX movie Dinosaurs Alive! and the re-worked 2008 version of Walking With Dinosaurs on the Discovery Channel.

Academic contributions

Nesbitt has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals with over 7,700 citations (per Google Scholar^[3]) and numerous papers in high-profile scientific journals, including Current Biology, Earth-Science Reviews, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, Royal Society Open Science, Science, and Scientific Reports.

Below is a list of taxa that Nesbitt has contributed to naming:

Year	Taxon	Authors
2024	Microzemiotes sonselaensis gen. et sp. nov.	Burch, Eddins, Stocker, Kligman, Marsh, Parker, & Nesbitt[4]
2023	Samsarasuchus pamelae gen. et sp. nov.	Ezcurra, Bandyopadhyay, Sengupta, Sen, Sennikov, Sookias, Nesbitt, & Butler[5]
2023	Funcusvermis gilmorei gen. et sp. nov.	Kligman, Gee, Marsh, Nesbitt, Smith, Parker, & Stocker[6]
2023	Venetoraptor gassenae gen. et sp. nov.	Müller, Ezcurra, Garcia, Agnolín, Stocker, Novas, Soares, Kellner, & Nesbitt[7]
2023	Mambachiton fiandohana gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Patellos, Kammerer, Ranivoharimanana, Wyss, & Flynn[8]
2022	Mbiresaurus raathi gen. et sp. nov.	Griffin, Wynd, Munyikwa, Broderick, Zondo, Tolan, Langer, Nesbitt, & Taruvinga[9]
2022	Mambawakale ruhuhu gen. et sp. nov.	Butler, Fernandez, Nesbitt, Leite, & Gower[10]
2022	Puercosuchus traverorum gen. et sp. nov.	Marsh, Parker, Nesbitt, Kligman, & Stocker[11]
2021	Syntomiprosopus sucherorum gen. et sp. nov.	Heckert, Nesbitt, Stocker, Schneider, Hoffman, & Zimmer[12]
2020	Trilophosaurus phasmalophos sp. nov.	Kligman, Marsh, Nesbitt, Parker, & Stocker[13]
2020	Kongonaphon kely gen. et sp. nov.	Kammerer, Nesbitt, Flynn, Ranivoharimanana, & Wyss[14]
2020	Dynamosuchus collisensis gen. et sp. nov.	Müller, Von Bacsko, Desoko, & Nesbitt[15]
2019	Suskityrannus hazelae gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Denton, Loewen, Brusatte, Smith, Turner, Kirkland, McDonald, & Wolfe[16]
2018	Mandasuchus tanyauchen gen. et sp. nov.	Butler, Nesbitt, Charig, Gower, & Barrett[17]
2017	Avicranium renestoi gen. et sp. nov.	Pritchard & Nesbitt[18]
2017	Teleocrater rhadinus gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt et al.[19]
2016	Litorosuchus somnii gen. et sp. nov.	Li, Wu, Zhao, Nesbitt, Stocker, & Wang[20]
2016	Triopticus primus gen. et sp. nov.	Stocker, Nesbitt, Criswell, Parker, Witmer, Rowe, Ridgely, & Brown[21]
2016	Vivaron haydeni gen. et sp. nov.	Lessner, Stocker, Smith, Turner, Irmis, & Nesbitt[22]
2016	Calciavis grandei gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt & Clarke[23]
2015	Lepidus praecisio gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt & Ezcurra[24]
2015	Carnufex carolinensis gen. et sp. nov.	Zanno, Drymala, Nesbitt, & Schneider[25]
2014	Nundasuchus songeaensis gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Sidor, Angielczyk, Smith, & Tsuji[26]
2013	Lutungutali sitwensis gen. et sp. nov.	Peecook, Sidor, Nesbitt, Smith, Steyer, & Angielczyk[27]
2013	Asperoris mnyama gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Butler, & Gower[28]
2012	Nyasasaurus parringtoni gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Barrett, Werning, Sidor, & Charig[29]
2011	Diodorus scytobrachion gen. et sp. nov.	Kammerer, Nesbitt, & Shubin[30]
2011	Albinykus baatar gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Clarke, Turner, & Norell[31]
2011	Daemonosaurus chauliodus gen. et sp. nov.	Sues, Nesbitt, Berman, & Henrici[32]
2010	Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis sp. nov.	Flynn, Nesbitt, Parrish, Ranivoharimanana, & Wyss[33]
2010	Aisilisaurus kongwe gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Sidor, Irmis, Angielczyk, Smith, & Tsuji[34]
2009	Limusaurus inextricabilis gen. et sp. nov.	Xu et al.[35]
2009	Kol ghuva gen. et sp. nov.	Turner, Nesbitt, & Norell[36]
2009	Tawa hallae gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Smith, Irmis, Turner, Downs, & Norell[37]
2007	Effigia okeeffeae gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt & Norell[38]
2005	Redondavenator quayensis gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt, Irmis, Lucas, & Hunt[39]
2004	Ammorhynchus navajoi gen. et sp. nov.	Nesbitt & Whatley[40]